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Have yet to see it.
I thought it was going back to being "free"?
If it's free, then who's getting it? We didn't get one here in my neighborhood.
Where did you get yours missy?
Is it just going out to subscribers??

I got TWO! Ha Ha!
But really, I subscribe.... so I got a Savannah Morning News with the Bluffton Today in it, and later I got just a Bluffton Today.
I live in the Crescent (and I tip my delivery guy every Christmas :)

If you go to the dump on Simmonsville, you can get a free copy out of the recycling bin tomorrow.

Erinn- Pinecrest.
Have family in Hampton Hall that didn't get one, and my customers in Colleton River didn't get one either.

Missy- Jeeez, and here I thought I knew where you lived...........oh well.
I saw a cherry picker at a house that weekend (poor cat) while playing golf and figured that must be your place. I'm glad I didn't knock on the door to say "hi"!

I had the same thing with the no coupons what is going on. Is bt going to have coupons in the paper and the Savannah Morning news going to have their own coupons? I also get the Island packet that had them all.

Gotta agree with you. It's also a little anti-climatic (no pun intended) reading the news four days after it has happened. Especially since, by the time I get the BT, I have already read the same news somewhere else.
I'm sure it is a work in progress....

BTW- Since I am a paid subscriber, I am now getting the SMN in place of the daily BT. I must say, I don't care for the SMN at all! Reading about all of the shootings and other crimes in Savannah at 6:30am is not a good way to start my day.
I miss Funday Monday :(

Gotta agree with Missy. I hate reading the news several days after it has happened (and I've already read about it elsewhere). I feel the same when I get that "other" Bluffton paper once a month.
-Old news.

Missy- Your husband rented a cherry picker just to power wash the house? Next time tell him he can borrow my extension ladder - for free.

My house is a story and a half Cape Cod style with a steep roof. Even the guys reroofing have to have toe boards when installing. since you can't stand on the roof, especially wet, how would you power wash it with out a cherry picker?

It's a matter of curiosity since I have never had a moss or fungus problem and have never power washed it. Sometimes I get a little mildew and I ignore it. I chose a mildew colored shingle and it never shows. LOL

heron- I usually use scaffolds when working on your type of home. I'll set something up in front or along side the house and run scaffolding over to the roof. Sometimes a toe board here and there for safety doesn't hurt either. Depending on the height of the roof, sometimes just laying a fully extended ladder along the roof line down to the ground works fine too (you have to bury the feet in the ground to keep it from moving on you).
Some roofs may look crazy, but there's always a way to work on it.
It just takes a little creativity. ;-)

Thanks for the offer, cg, but he's got an extension ladder.
The house is a good 36' tall (3 stories), not including roof. He'd be up and down a ladder all day. And the cherry picker only costs about $300.... much less than the price we've paid to have someone else do the job.

And I figure it is much safer than a ladder.... although my husband decided to walk the roof since the cherry picker could lift him right onto it, not safe! But you gotta check those shingles and roof vents every now and then!

All in all, the cherry picker was a wise choice.The fact that it goes "beep beep beep" when it backs up is just a bonus ;)

@BTBarry- Glad to make your day. Now make mine. Write something funny!!!

I had to do some work around my chimney flashing a couple of years ago. I would have to have crawled across the whole house ridge to get to it. I had a 36' ladder, which I laid down on the roof at the same angle, so it would be like climbing some stairs to the top. But I was afraid the foot might slip on the ground, so I nudged my tractor against the bottom to keep it from slipping.

I commented on the coupons as I do not read the hard copy paper so I really was not able to comment. I have been paying for BT ever since it went to a paid subscription. I too don't like getting the news 4 days later and read as much of the local news as I can online. I have always like the BT staff and thought they worked hard under some tough conditions I thought supporting them was the best I could do.

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